Some (definitely) useful advice

While doing my usual browsing of the TU website before I dive into my work I found this post on Pete Iorizzo’s blog that I feel is very appropriate to reiterate here. He gives 10 very useful tips to college freshmen that are definitely worth taking a look at.

My personal favorites include:

“3. Go to class. I know the 8:30 a.m. statistics course with Professor McSnoozer seems inhumane, but think about it: You can get free coffee from the cafeteria on the way, and you can show up in sweat pants. I can’t do that. Neither can the rest of the working world. Plus, for 95 percent of the planet, 8:30 a.m. is really not that early. We don’t feel bad for you. So just go, and figure out a way to stay awake. Drink coffee. Pull on your earlobes. Make your phone vibrate every five minutes. Do whatever you have to do, short of staring at the girl next to you. She might actually care what Professor McSnoozer is saying. Or be his daughter.”

and

“6. Memorize this sentence: “It doesn’t belong to me, and I don’t know how it got there.”